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Diane Lane

Diane Lane

Acting1965New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Diane Colleen Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American actress and producer. Born and raised in New York City, Lane made her screen debut at age 14 in George Roy Hill's 1979 film A Little Romance. Laurence Olivier, who played a major supporting role in the film, called her "the new Grace Kelly".

The two films that could have catapulted her to star status, Streets of Fire and The Cotton Club, were both commercial and critical failures, and her career languished as a result. After taking a break, Lane returned to acting to appear in The Big Town and Lady Beware, but did not make another big impression on a sizable audience until 1989's popular and critically acclaimed TV miniseries Lonesome Dove, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. It was not until 1999 that Lane earned further recognition for her role in A Walk on the Moon, and that was followed by her performance alongside George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg in the 2000 blockbuster The Perfect Storm.

She was especially lauded and honored for the 2002 film Unfaithful, which earned her Satellite, New York Film Critics Circle, and National Society of Film Critics awards for Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama). Her performance in Unfaithful also garnered her Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Actress. She was also highly lauded by critics for her performance in the immediately subsequent film Under the Tuscan Sun. For much of the rest of the decade, she alternately appeared as a lead actress in romantic films such as Must Love Dogs (2005) and Nights in Rodanthe (2008), and thrillers such as Fierce People (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), and Untraceable (2008).

She has appeared in four films directed by Francis Ford Coppola: The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, The Cotton Club, and Jack. She has been in one film directed by his wife Eleanor Coppola: Paris Can Wait.

She also played the recurring role of Martha Kent, the adoptive mother of Superman, in Man of Steel (2013) and appeared in subsequent films of the DC Extended Universe. Her most recent film is the 2020 neo-western Let Him Go.

Acting History

Future
Moral Capacity
as Dr. Torre
Queen City
as dian3
2026
Golden Globe Awards
TVas Self - Presenter1 eps
2025
Anniversary
as Ellen
Anniversary
Executive Producer
2024
Inside Out 2
as Mom (voice)
FEUD
TVas Slim Keith8 eps
A Man in Full
TVas Martha Croker6 eps
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TVas Self1 eps
2023
Extrapolations
TVas Martha Russell2 eps
2021
Y: The Last Man
TVas Jennifer Brown10 eps
2020
Let Him Go
as Margaret Blackledge
2019
Serenity
as Constance
Ocean Paradise
as Narrator
2018
House of Cards
TVas Annette Shepherd8 eps
The Romanoffs
TVas Katherine Ford2 eps
2016
2015
Trumbo
as Cleo Trumbo
Riley's First Date
as Mom (voice)
Inside Out
as Mom (voice)
2013
Man of Steel
as Martha Kent
The Frame
TVas Martha Kent1 eps
2011
Cinema Verite
as Pat Loud
2010
Secretariat
as Penny Chenery
2008
Untraceable
as Agent Jennifer Marsh
Jumper
as Mary Rice
Killshot
as Carmen Colson
The Bonnie Hunt Show
TVas Self1 eps
2006
Fierce People
as Liz Earl
Hollywoodland
as Toni Mannix
2004
Inside the Actors Studio
TVas Self1 eps
2003
2002
Unfaithful
as Constance Sumner
Intimate Portrait
TVas Self1 eps
2001
Hardball
as Elizabeth Wilkes
The Glass House
as Erin Glass
2000
The Virginian
as Molly Stark
The Perfect Storm
as Christina "Chris" Cotter
My Dog Skip
as Ellen Morris
1998
Grace & Glorie
as Gloria Greenwood
Gunshy
as Melissa
1997
Murder at 1600
as Agent Nina Chance
The Only Thrill
as Katherine Fritzsimmons
The View
TVas Self
1996
Mad Dog Time
as Grace Everly
Jack
as Karen Powell
1995
Wild Bill
as Susannah Moore
A Streetcar Named Desire
as Stella Kowalski
Judge Dredd
as Judge Hershey
1993
Indian Summer
as Beth Warden / Clair Everett
Fallen Angels
TVas Bernette Stone1 eps
1992
The Setting Sun
as Lian Hong
My New Gun
as Debbie Bender
Chaplin
as Paulette Goddard
Knight Moves
as Kathy Sheppard
1990
Vital Signs
as Gina Wyler
Descending Angel
as Irina Stroia
1989
Lonesome Dove
TVas Lorena Wood Parker4 eps
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TVas Self - Guest / Self
1987
The Big Town
as Lorry Dane
Lady Beware
as Katya Yarno
1984
The Cotton Club
as Vera Cicero
Streets of Fire
as Ellen Aim
1983
Rumble Fish
as Patty
The Outsiders
as Cherry Valance
1982
Miss All-American Beauty
as Sally Butterfield
Six Pack
as Breezy
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
as Liza ("Growing Yourself")
1981
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
as Jenny (Little Britches)
Child Bride of Short Creek
as Jessica Rae Jacobs
Great Performances
TVas Charity Royall1 eps
1980
1979
A Little Romance
as Lauren King
1952
Today
TVas Self
1951

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1/22/1965(61 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA